Posted on 11/21/2022 9:35:47 AM PST by NeverCheney
The United States Senate voted Wednesday to advance the so-called Respect for Marriage Act.
HR 8404, which passed the House of Representatives in July, “provides statutory authority for same-sex and interracial marriages,” repealing provisions that define marriage as between a man and a woman.
The legislation also “repeals and replaces provisions that do not require states to recognize same-sex marriages from other states with provisions that prohibit the denial of full faith and credit or any right or claim relating to out-of-state marriages on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin,” allows “the Department of Justice to bring a civil action,” and “establishes a private right of action for violations.”
Democratic advocates say the legislation promotes equality, but religious leaders strongly warned that it explicitly targets people of faith.
“Make no mistake,” Alliance Defending Freedom President Kristen Waggoner warned, “this bill will be used by officials and activists to punish and ruin those who do not share the government’s view on marriage.”
On Wednesday, HR 8404 received 62 “aye” votes and 37 “no” votes.
Twelve Republicans voted for advancing the legislation: Sens. Roy Blunt of Missouri, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Shelley Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Todd Young of Indiana.
Most of these lawmakers did not respond to requests for comment from The Daily Signal
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It’s a pity that the RNC always has these back stabbing types.
See, unbeknownst to the Framers of the 14th Amendment and the states that ratified it, Scotus by 5-4 vote in 2015, determined that THEY knew that Congress intended the 14A to cover sodomy and fag marriage.
It’s an easy conclusion in an oligarchic form of government.
I assume that they’re all dykes and fairies.
Sodomy is the principle that cuts across all other divides.
“When cannons are roaring and bullets are flying,
He who would honor win, must not fear dying!”
Roundhead song, English Civil War. When people killed each other over religious liberty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBjCK2CzA6Q
You might find interesting the following comment on this issue from a related thread.
The Supreme Court had clarified in Reid v. Covert that federal power to approve treaties cannot be used as a backdoor to expand the federal government's powers.
"The obvious and decisive answer to this, of course, is that no agreement with a foreign nation can confer power on the Congress, or on any other branch of Government, which is free from the restraints of the Constitution." —Reid v. Covert, 1957.
But regardless that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the federal government the specific power to regulate marriage, post-17th Amendment ratification renegade Senate Democrats and RINOs are now abusing the Constitution's full faith and credit clause (imo) by likewise trying to use it as a back door to expand the fed's powers to attack the 10th Amendment-protected powers of the sovereign states to define marriage imo.
Historically speaking, regarding the full faith and credit clause, consider that at one time if you were 18 years old and living in a state where minimum drinking age is 18 for example, and you visit a friend in a state where drinking age is 21, then your state's lower minimum drinking age did not follow you into your friend's state.
But same sex marriage got forced onto many states where it wasn’t legal.
I see the same exact thing happening here.
The same old Dirty Dozen of the Senate
Surprised at Joni Ernst.
Maybe I shouldn’t be.
I hate to say it, but none of this matters that much and is used as a voting sledgehammer on the Republicans over and over. The same goes for abortion. Single women have already placed unhindered abortion over economic and safety concerns. Those kinds of numbers are hard to beat. It’s proven at the voting booth. Getting these things off the table might help them focus a bit on what’s right outside their door.
You can say I’ve given up, but I just think there are too many holes in the boat. If we’re going to save it from certain death, it’s going to have to be based on fiscal, crime, and border concerns.
No mention of marrying broccoli or grasshoppers.
“This means immigrant Muslims with four wives will be legal .”
No state has legal polygamy.
How about a Constitutional ameendment that by itself adjourns Congress from the day after election day until the day the new Congress takes office. In short - end all lame-duck sessions of Cpngress.
Pleasantly surprised Toomey’s name is not there.
A pox upon all their houses.
Nope. It doesn’t matter what your state votes for. By federal statute it’d be legal.
:following:
Ҥ 1738C. Certain acts, records, and proceedings and the effect thereof
“(a) In General.—No person acting under color of State law may deny—
“(1) full faith and credit to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other State pertaining to a marriage between 2 individuals, on the basis of the sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin of those individuals; or
“(2) a right or claim arising from such a marriage on the basis that such marriage would not be recognized under the law of that State on the basis of the sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin of those individuals.”
Gay marriage, amnesty and funneling more money into the failed Ukraine project. The Republican establishment must die or the Republican party itself must.
OK with me, the government is way to involved in peoples personal decisions. Tax codes make getting married costly for some couples for example.
Yes, that’s what I meant. If it is legal in one state, it is effectively legalized everywhere, but if you are a foreign immigrant, the law doesn’t recognize the legality based on a foreign states.
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